Developed more than a century ago to take advantage of a new communications technology, the inverted pyramid remains a controversial yet widely used method of reporting news and will have a future in ...

Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. If one looks deeply at the world of “fake news” one finds that much of ...